Example sentences for: yukon

How can you use “yukon” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • While the earliest, around 70,000 b.c., moved down the Pacific coast to South America, the settlement of Canada began some 15,000 years after, spreading across the continent from the Yukon and, much later, from British Columbia.

  • From the Yukon, further migrations took them north to the High Arctic, south around Hudson Bay to Manitoba, east to Greenland, and down the Labrador coast to Newfoundland.

  • A year later, gold was struck in the Klondike, opening up the Yukon to 100,000 panhandlers and camp followers.

  • We’ve divided the country into six regions, each with at least one major town accessible by air as a “launching pad” from which to explore the hinterland: Ontario; Québec; the Atlantic (Newfoundland and the Maritimes); British Columbia; the Rockies and the Prairie Provinces (Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba); and the North (Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories).

  • In a subarctic land of soaring mountains and elongated glacial lakes beside the great Yukon River, today’s tourists can thank yesterday’s prospectors for using part of their paydirt for some essential creature comforts.


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